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Short description: Person who has committed a sex crime

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What is the neutrality dispute about?

"The neutrality of this article is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page."

Would somebody please clarify which discussion is relevant? What issues are in dispute? deisenbe (talk) 11:21, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See the section above this one. CapitalSasha ~ talk 16:28, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The entry defines the term sex offender without making mention that organizations such as Association For The Treatment Of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) recommend people first language such as “individuals who commit sexual offenses.” See ^[1] Jasonwasserman (talk) 18:05, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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^ https://www.atsa.com/terminology.

Semi-protected edit request on 23 December 2019

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Please remove the adjective "female" when referring to Genitalia Mutilation. [First paragraph of document.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism "Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone..." Michaeltomasch (talk) 14:46, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for not being an appropriate request. However, there was no indication that this was an example of a sex offense, so I simply removed the list item outright. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 15:19, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Harvey Weinstein?

Surprise surprise! No mention of "convicted sex offender" Harvey Weinstein. Wonder why?? 125.174.218.87 (talk) 15:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics

To the extent that reliable sources are available, it might be good to have a section about demographics. Just browsing through the database local to me, it seems that there is a slight tendency for sex offenders to be non-caucasian, but my casual search suggests the correlation is small. And they seem to be concentrated (again, not a strong correlation) in lower-income metropolitan areas. Indeed, I found a government source confirming this^[1] although it suggests that minorities are over-represented in sex offeder registries compared to their actual presence in the population.

Interestingly, I found two sources suggesting a statistically meaningful correlation with religiosity: "a strong tendency for prisoners who declare a religious faith to be serving time for sexual offences"^[2] and "religiosity was linked to a higher number of sex offense victims and more convictions for sex offenses. Those sex offenders who reported regular church attendance, a belief in supernatural punishment, and religion as important in their daily lives had more known victims, younger victims, and more convictions for sex offenses..."^[3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anachronist (talk • contribs) 02:25, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 August 2022 and 10 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): ColleenESullivan (article contribs).

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[1] ttps://www.atsa.com/terminology.

[2] ttp://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/disproportionate_minority_presence_on_u.s._sex_offender_registries_ackerman_sacks.pdf

[3] ttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prison-figures-show-a-link-between-sex-crime-and-religion-vkx53vxr8lz

[4] ttps://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=237824

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